R.A. 7877 – “an Act Declaring Sexual Harassment Unlawful in the Employment, Education or Training Environment, and for Other Purposes”

RA 7877 was enacted to prevent and lawfully punished any unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment." Its concerns were to value the dignity of every individual, enhance the development of human resources, guarantee respect for human rights, and uphold the dignity of workers, employees, applicants for employment, students or those undergoing training, instruction or education. Any person who commit work/education or training related sexual harassment was imprisonment of not less than one (1) month nor more than six (6) months, or a fine of not less than Ten thousand pesos (P10,000) nor more than Twenty thousand pesos (P20,000), or both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court.